101183 Psychology For Behavioural Science
Task:
Unit Learning Outcomes
1 Identify major issues in the nature and history of psychology (APAC Graduate Attribute 1)
2 Recognise the key theoretical concepts and major empirical findings in the domains of psychology covered in the unit: perception, cognition, consciousness, biological psychology, learning, research methods, and motivation and emotion (APAC GA 1, 2, and 3)
3 Describe the methods used by psychologists in their research, including an evaluation of ethical practice (APAC GA 2 and 4)
4 Construct a partial research report conforming to APA (American Psychological Association) Publication Guidelines (6th edition) (APAC GA 2, 3, and 5).
Overview:
Writing up psychological experiments in the form of a ’research report’ - in accordance with the rules set down by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) - is a vital skill you must start to develop early in your study of psychology.
You will participate in the experiment to be presented in the report in your Week 2 tutorial. In response to student feedback in previous semesters, we have scheduled a further three tutorials to assist you with this assessment task.
In the Introduction to the report, you will justify research aims, research methods, and specific hypotheses, using theories and previous research from the scientific literature. In the Discussion section, you will interpret results, re-evaluate key issues from the Introduction in light of the results, and make suggestions for future research. To do this effectively, you will learn about data collation, elementary statistical analysis, appropriate referencing techniques, and application of APA publication rules.
Your Taines (2015) text explains how to structure a report correctly. You should also attend the four tutorials that are devoted to report writing and refer to the appendix of your student tutorial workbook.
